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Teacher Questionnaire

Thank you for helping us with this important research project on teacher stress by taking the time to fill
in this questionnaire. You are an expert in your work and your views are important. Your answers will be
treated in the strictest confidence and all findings will be anonymised so that responses cannot be traced
back to individual people or schools. It should take about 15-20 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

【Background information】（Please tick the box that best describes your experience）

1. Your gender (Please .) Male Female

2. In which year were you born? ________________

3. What is your highest educational qualification (e.g. Bachelor Degree; Master’s Degree)?

（1）Below Bachelor degree（2）Bachelor Degree （3）Master’s Degree（4）Doctor’s Degree

4. How long have you been a teacher? ___________________

5. How long have you been in your current school? ______________________

6. How many schools have you worked in? _______________________

7. Do you have additional managerial responsibility in your current school? (Please .)（you may choose
one more）

（1）principal or vice principal（2）teaching director （3）mentors （4）curriculum development

director

Appendix:

Dimensions of questionnaire

Students’ problems ： b1、2、3、4、5

workload： b6、7、8、9、10
school evaluation： b11、12、13
social factors： b14、15、17
teaching profession： b16、18（negative）、19
professional development：b20（negative）、21、22
examination caused： b23、24
 Below are some statements about feelings and thoughts about you as a teacher. Please tick one box that
best describes your experience of each over this school year.

1：Strongly Disagree, 2: Disagree 3: Do not know 4: Agree , 5: Strongly Agree

1. Students' learning problems such as lack of motivation often bring me stress 1 2 3 4 5

2. I am stressed for the security of students 1 2 3 4 5

3. I feel stressed for student psychological problem 1 2 3 4 5

4. I feel stressed for special needs of children 1 2 3 4 5

5. I have no way to deal with problems of some students 1 2 3 4 5

6. I feel stressed for student individual difference 1 2 3 4 5

7. Education reforms make me feel stressed 1 2 3 4 5

8. Student quality makes me stressed 1 2 3 4 5

9. the hard questions students asked make me feel stressed 1 2 3 4 5

10. I feel overloaded 1 2 3 4 5

11. Many kinds of inspections or evaluations brings me stress 1 2 3 4 5

12. I feel stressed for promotion systems 1 2 3 4 5

13. Requirements of teaching and research gives me stress 1 2 3 4 5

14. Complain of parents make me feel stressed 1 2 3 4 5

15. I feel stressed that parents do not care their children 1 2 3 4 5

16. I feel stressed for responsibility for students every day 1 2 3 4 5

17. Irresponsible reports from media make me stressed 1 2 3 4 5

18. I've got enough return for my work 1 2 3 4 5

19. I feel overwhelmed for extra work 1 2 3 4 5

20. I don't feel stressed for promotions 1 2 3 4 5

21. It is hard for me to understand ideas of reforms 1 2 3 4 5

22. I feel stressed that knowledge changes so quickly 1 2 3 4 5

23. I often worry about student achievements 1 2 3 4 5

24. I feel stressed for teacher evaluation based on student achievement 1 2 3 4 5